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psychical

adjective

  1. psychic
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪkɪk(ə)l/

adj

Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, psyche + -ical.

  1. Performed by or pertaining to the psyche (the mind, spirit, or both): mental, psychic.

    Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?

    Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility.

  2. Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.
  3. Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.